If you discovered a rash of home burglaries in your neighborhood, you'd find out how they're getting in, what is being stolen, and work to secure your home. In cybersecurity, criminals are always trying to steal your personal information, passwords, and money.
Phishing and social engineering attacks cost organizations billions of dollars each year, and the attacks are getting worse. As these attacks intensify and become more refined, technology struggles to keep up, and users will continue to fall prey. To effectively defend against this, you have to understand how the attacks work, including the psychological triggers and tricks the attackers are using. This session will explore the different techniques that social engineers and scam artists use to make users more likely to do their bidding by clicking links and opening attachments.

Learning Objectives:
- Understand the continuous emerging threats threatening organizations
- Learn why people fall victim to the social engineering attacks like phishing
- Recognize and understand security culture as the next evolution to security awareness

The focus audience are non-technical people. It can be geared for technically minded as a refresher, but the purpose is to educate and bring additional awareness to users learning more about cybersecurity.